Jonathan Allen

Postdoc, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Postdoc, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies

jallen@umd.edu

Dr. Jonathan Parkes Allen is a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies. A historian of early modern Ottoman religious and cultural history by training, a post-doctoral researcher he is currently working on various projects at the intersection of Islamicate history and digital humanities, with a primary focus on the application of digital methods to Arabic script print and manuscript texts. He is also pursuing research into the history of religious devotion in the Islamicate world as well as the history of saints and sainthood in the Ottoman Empire and beyond.